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I lost power during a Win7 upgrade from Vista. Had done a partition backup before i started thinking this would get everything. UPS ran out of power before the power came back on and system would not boot. Now have Win 7 installed and need to get my data back. First, what does the partition back up backup.
2. If i have everything on that backup should I restore the whole thing and upgrade to Win 7 again.
3. Can I pull just my documents and quickbooks backup from what i have.

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Assuming that by partition back up you made a disk partition backup, you should be able to mount the partition and then copy your documents over. You would need to re-install Quickbooks itself and then import the Quickbook files.

If you made a files and folders backup then you will have to explore the image with Windows Explorer to access the image.

Recovering the image might be the easiest thing to do, however, more information is needed as to whether you actually imaged the complete disk or just a single partition if the disk has more then one partition on it. You could restore the partition and then run the W7 installer and see if it can find the Vista partition and then make the booting environment.

Thinking aloud this should work.

The problem of just copying your documents over is that you might need to change the 'ownership' of the documents so they relate to the W7 installation rather than the Vista one.